Invincible vs Insatiable - What's the difference?
invincible | insatiable |
Someone or something that cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed.
Impossible to defeat, destroy or kill.
Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
* 1843'' '', book 2, ch. 4, ''Abbot Hugo
* 1885 — [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZgVUqbK-_1EC&pg=PA19&dq=mikado++insatiable&sig=a932jEhYrf-l6EOJvgvNfxO6kHE]
As adjectives the difference between invincible and insatiable
is that invincible is impossible to defeat, destroy or kill while insatiable is not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.As a noun invincible
is someone or something that cannot be defeated, destroyed or killed.invincible
English
Noun
(en-noun)Antonyms
* vincibleAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* unconquerable * undefeatableAntonyms
* conquerable * defeatable * vincible * weakExternal links
* * * ----insatiable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean while, how to quiet your insatiable' Jew? Hugo, for this couple of hundreds, grants the Jew his bond for four hundred payable at the end of four years. (...) Neither yet is this ' insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest'
- Such an appointment would realize my fondest dreams. But no, at any sacrifice, I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition!